1 British people wore Barbour coats years ago. They are still wearing them today. British people have been wearing Barbour coats for years. (wear) 2 Burberrytartan was popular in the 1920s. It still is today.
(be) 3 Dolce and Gabbana started designing
clothes together in 1982. They are still designing clothes together today.
(design) 4 Kate Middleton liked high street fashion when
she was a teenager. She still likes it today.
(like) 5 The 'royal look' is fashionable again, thanks to Kate Middleton.
Unit 3
(become)​

Great Britain is an old country and it has a lot of holidays and interesting traditions. Holidays in the country are historic and public. Most public holidays are called bank holidays because banks, companies and most shops do not work on these days. Such holidays include New Year’s Day, Easter Monday and others.The most important holiday in Britain is Christmas, but not the New Year. Christmas is on the 25th of December. Families spend this day together. For many people this is the most important holiday of the year. Family members wrap up their presents and put them under the Christmas tree. Children hang colorful socks at the end of their beds for presents. They believe that Santa Claus puts presents inside the socks.New Year’s Day is not as important in Britain as it is in Russia. People usually make promises to themselves such as to give up smoking, to change their lifestyle and others.

There is an ancient oriental tale about three smart, beloved by fate, lucky princes, wandering around the world and sometimes by chance, and more often due to their intelligence, dexterity and ingenuity, they found wonderful and useful things that they, in general, were not looking for. Princes came from the Serendip principality (as the Arabs in ancient times called the island Ceylon). There was even the term "serendipnost" - the gift of finding valuable or pleasant things that are not looking for.
Serendipnost characteristic of a true scientist. In science, they are often looking for one thing, and due to chance, a happy coincidence of circumstances and insight, they find something completely different, sometimes even more important. True, the history of science testifies that this gift, as in the ancient fairy tale, inspired and deep minds are rewarded, that only brilliant insight and excellent preparation make it possible not to indifferently pass by a happy event, but to translate it into a discovery. Thus, the case, as it were, is no longer a case, and the serendipnost is not just a happy coincidence ...